Israel Matzav

New Yorker misses father's burial due to 'Palestinian' rock ambush

A New York woman missed her father's burial on the Mount of Olives on Friday afternoon after her car came under attack by 'Palestinian' rock throwers near one of the cemetery's two entrances, and it was too close to the Sabbath to wait for her any longer.

Richler, 59, drove to the funeral Friday afternoon in a car with her sister, her brother-in-law and her young nephew, reports Israel Hayom. Near the church of Gethsemane, however, about ten Arab youths ambushed the car and pelted it with rocks and cinderblocks – an action that has become a favorite local Arab pastime in recent years, as Israeli deterrence has weakened.

Richler was in a state of shock following the attack and the car was disabled for a long time.

The funeral organizers were left with no choice but to conduct it without Richler and the other relatives who were with her, because the Sabbath was about to begin.

"I never dreamed that my father's funeral would look like this,” she told Israel Hayom. “I came especially from New York, thousands of kilometers away, to take part in it. When the attack upon us began, I was in a state of total shock. I heard shouting, booms and thuds on the car. I have heard sometimes that people were attacked with rocks on the way to the Mount of Olives, but I never thought something like this would happen to me.”

The My Israel movement intends to launch a media campaign this week, to pressure the Jerusalem Police and the Minister of Public Security to improve the security situation in Jerusalem. “The entire region has been completely forfeited and we intend to put pressure on the decision makers,” said movement chair Sarah Haetzni Cohen.

Jerusalem Councillor Yael Antabi told Arutz Sheva that cameras need to be installed wherever violence is rife. She said that cameras placed around the Mount Scopus university campus have helped female students there feel less threatened by the Arabs of Issawiya, but noted that another trouble spot is the Light Rail, where there is daily Arab-Jewish violence that goes unreported.

Imagine how much worse things would have been if then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak's plan to give the Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem to the 'Palestinians' would have gone through in the lead-up to Camp David in 2000. 

But what a miserable experience Mrs. Richler suffered....

Labels: Mount of Olives, Palestinian terrorism, stone throwers

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:08 PM